Membership

Members enjoy a range a benefits including access to restricted sites, regular club meetings and club newsletter, ongoing formal and informal training opportunities and of course many flying opportunities with one of Australia's most active flying communities. Prospective members can join online whilst current members can modify their existing records.

 

Club meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month except January and November. Meetings are held at The Retreat Hotel, 226 Nicholson Street Abbotsford. Meetings begin at 8:00pm however a number of members enjoy a bar meal beforehand from about 6:30pm onwards. A number of monthly awards are presented at these meetings and the night usually includes a presentation on a topic of interest to the community.

 

Australina Paragliding News or APN as it is known is our regular club newsletter. APN is packed with member's stories, technical articles and ample reading entertainment for those parawaiting hours.

 

The club provides ongoing formal and informal training opportunities for member pilots. Formal skills clinics supervised by instructors are often scheduled during our larger events. Access to licence upgrade tutorials and first aid training courses are regularly scheduled by the club. A number of competitions are run by the club to cater for low airtime novice pilots through to advanced cross country pilots. We also organise an annual Swing and Fling where pilots have the opportunity to deploy their reserve in a simulated environment followed by a reserve inspection and repack by a qualified rigger.

 

Please check here to see the current membership cost.  Membership runs from July to July.